And the main game has climbed to 25 million copies sold.
19.09.2023 - 00:40 / pushsquare.com
Final Fantasy VII Remake and its standalone expansion/upgrade, Integrade, have together crossed an impressive sales milestone, with Square Enix announcing that more than seven million copies have been sold worldwide.
This figure compiles physical and digital editions of the game across both PlayStation and PC. Square Enix is notoriously tough to read regarding sales expectations, as we were recently reminded with Final Fantasy XVI, which was described as doing "fine" at 3 million copies sold. The Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters notched up another 3 million units, admittedly across a much larger swathe of platforms.
Analyst Daniel Ahmed notes that the original PS1 version managed 9.8 million before being re-released on other platforms but that the changing nature of game distribution makes this all difficult to parse. Recall that Final Fantasy VII Remake was available as a PlayStation Plus Premium title back in March 2021, which makes things slightly murkier and brings up repressed memories of that painful upgrade debacle.
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I bought FFVII on launch day in 1997 for PS1 (as well as BradyGames paperback guide).
Made it very close to the final boss fight, then just abandoned for reasons I honestly can’t remember.
Wonder if is worth playing any of the ‘updates’ / continuations on latest gen hardware.
No longer having a paperback guide will take away some of the nostalgia for me.
I wonder how many 16 has sold by now, it sold 3 million in its first week, I know 15 has sold over 10 million as well. I would like to see how these latest installments have done against the games of old like the 8,9,10 & 12, especially since people say the franchise is dying but numbers like this suggest otherwise.
@UltimateOtaku91 I take it the latest entries are extremely front loaded. Without a significant price cut FF16 likely won't sell much, unfortunately, no matter how good it is. All the bad press from the vultures who jumped the gun didn't help either.
Took me 2 years to clear the original, I was swayed by a resi evil and tomb raider LoL. Then got my ass kicked multiple times by meteor. I'm loving the remake can't wait for more.
@naruball Yeah it's a shame as well since its actually a solid game, even the critics rated
And the main game has climbed to 25 million copies sold.
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